Common Name Barker's Barkeria [George Barker English orchid enthusiast 1800's]

Flower Size 1 1/2" [2.5 to 3.5 cm]

This southwestern Mexican epiphytic species occurs at elevations of 100 to 1000 meters on trees and shrubs on the Pacific coast as a hot to warm growing epiphyte with slender, swollen spindle shaped pseudobulbs carrying thin, apical, deciduous leaves that fall before it blooms in the late summer and fall on an apical, 8 3/4" [27 cm] long, racemose inflorescence with up to 10 flowers.